stream creating List of List (nested List) using forEach, Java 8

Question

class EntityCompositeId {
    private Long firstId;
    private Long secondId;
    // getter & setter...
}

class EntityComposite {
    private EntityCompositeId id;
    private String first;
    private String second;
    // getter & setter...
}

List<EntityComposite> listEntityComposite = ....
Supose this content

1, 1, "firstA", "secondBirdOne"
1, 2, "firstA", "secondBirdTwo"
1, 3, "firstA", "secondBirdThree"

2, 1, "firstB", "secondCatOne"
2, 2, "firstB", "secondCatTwo"
2, 3, "firstB", "secondCatThree"

3, 1, "firstC", "secondDogOne"
3, 2, "firstC", "secondDogTwo"
3, 3, "firstC", "secondDogThree"

Map<Long, List<String>> listOfLists = new HashMap<>();

Now using stream I want to fill like:

 1 -> {"secondBirdOne", "secondBirdTwo", "secondBirdThree"}
 2 -> {"secondCatOne", "secondCatTwo", "secondCatThree"}
 3 -> {"secondDogOne", "secondDogTwo", "secondDogThree"}

My UNFINISHED (that's the question) code is:

listEntityComposite.stream()forEach(entityComposite {
        // How create a list according entityComposite.getId.getFirstId()?
        listOfLists.put(entityComposite.getId.getFirstId(), .... )
    });

Answer 1

collect is a more suitable terminal operation for generating an output Map than forEach.

You can use collect() with Collectors.groupingBy:

Map<Long, List<String>> listOfLists =
    listEntityComposite.stream()
                       .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(e -> e.getId().getFirstId(),
                                                      Collectors.mapping(EntityComposite::getSecond,
                                                                         Collectors.toList());

Collectors.groupingBy with a single argument (just e -> e.getId().getFirstId()) would generate a Map<Long,List<EntityComposite>>.

Chaining to it Collectors.mapping() maps each EntityComposite instance to the corresponding getSecond() String, as required.